postbellum

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Latin post (“after”) + bellum (“war”)

Adjective [edit]

postbellum (not comparable)

  1. Of the period following a war.
  2. In the United States, of the period following the Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.

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